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The evidence linking cell phones and other wireless devices to cancer seems to be getting stronger: An international team of scientists has concluded cell phones are "possibly carcinogenic to humans," reports AFP. After reviewing scores of published studies on the issue, the International Agency for Research on Cancer—an arm of the World Health Organization—ranked cell phones in category 2B, the same as DDT and gasoline engine exhaust.

The finding now goes to WHO and other health agencies, which may issue official warnings on use, notes AP. The radio frequency electromagnetic fields generated by the phones and other such devices got the ranking "based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer," the agency said. Similar concerns have been around for a while. Click for one writer's safety check list.

Carcinogens are all over everywhere. You can't avoid them. What you can do is use diet and exercise to your advantage to make your body less prone to allowing cancer to develop. Read The China Study.

Sir_Cancelout

May 31, 2011 6:44 PM CDT

PEOPLE aren't the only potential victims of the pervasive cell phone culture! There is now compelling evidence that HONEYBEE colonies may be dying off due to cell phone communications. http://www.fastcompany.com/1752894/are-cell-phones-killing-all-the-bees Good luck in getting the problem straightened out! It'll be another one of those " inconvenient truths " that noboby will be able to deal with in the face of monumental vested interests and consumer demand! But what the hell! The convenience of cell phones is far more important than putting FOOD on the table, right!? And if you think honeybees aren't vitally important for food production, think again!

brawne

May 31, 2011 6:40 PM CDT

Really--how simple is this? Don't hold the thing to your ear. My brother-in-law fought this cancer for ten years. Didn't get it from a phone--got it in a hanger at Wright Patterson along with the other two guys who died earlier. Before he died he said it over and over--don't hold the thing against your head. Speaker phone--ear thingy--anything. Just don't put the fucking waves next to your temple--easy.